A Mother's Duty
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Artist | Pieter de Hooch |
Year | 1658–1660 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 52.5 cm × 61 cm (20.7 in × 24 in) |
Location | Amsterdam Museum on loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Website | Amsterdam Collection online |
A Mother's Duty (1658–1660) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. It is part of the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum.
Description
This painting by Hooch showing a woman delousing a child's hair was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:
71. MOTHER COMBING HER CHILD'S HAIR. Sm. 33, 4, 67; de G. 5.[1] In a homely bedroom sits a woman in profile to the right. She wears a red blouse and blue skirt, and is de-lousing her daughter's hair who kneels before her with her head in her lap. Behind her is an elevated, recessed bed with curtains; a child's chair stands in the right foreground. The door on the left, near which is a little dog, opens into a second room, through the door of which is seen a garden with slender trees.[2] This is one of the finest pictures by De Hooch in Holland. [Compare 74.] Signed on the chair "Pr d' hooch"; canvas on panel, 21 inches by 24 inches. Wrongly attributed to E. Boursse in the 1887 catalogue of the Rijksmuseum ; the signature is absolutely genuine, and is wrongly described as doubtful in the 1905 catalogue.
- Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 88 (610 florins, Van der Dussen), (compare also Hoet, ii. 504).
- J. L. van der Dussen, in Amsterdam, October 31, 1774, No. 7 (750 florins).
- J. J. de J. J. de Faesch, in Amsterdam, July 3, 1833, No. 20 (3500 florins plus 7 1/2 per cent, bought in; or 2590 florins, Jansen for Moget).
- Amsterdam, April 24, 1838, No. 18 (3311 florins, Brondgeest). Formerly in the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam.
- Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest; No. 1250 in the 1905 catalogue (formerly No. 685).[3]
Gallery
This painting seems to have been a successful design for De Hooch as there are several variations on the subject of this bedroom and its doorway outside:
- The Bedroom (Widener Collection)
- The Bedroom (Karlsruhe)
- The Golf Players
See also
References
- ^ Comparative table of catalog entries between John Smith's first Catalogue raisonné of Hooch and Hofstede de Groot's first list of Hooch paintings published in Oud Holland
- ^ "Transcendence in Ordinary Domestic Life", Wall Street Journal, August 19, 2017
- ^ entry 71 for Mother Combing her Child's Hair in Hofstede de Groot, 1908
External links
- Interieur met vrouw die een kind luist, ca. 1658-1660 in the RKD
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- List of paintings
- The Empty Glass (c. 1652)
- A Man with Dead Birds, and Other Figures, in a Stable (c. 1655)
- Two Soldiers and a Serving Woman with a Trumpeter (c. 1650-1655)
- A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour (1657)
- Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women (c. 1657)
- Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room (1658)
- The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658)
- The Golf Players (1658)
- A Woman Drinking with Two Men (1658)
- A Woman with a Child in a Pantry (c. 1658)
- The Bedroom (Karlsruhe) (1658-1660)
- The Bedroom (Widener Collection) (1658-1660)
- Courtyard with an Arbour (1658-1660)
- A Dutch Courtyard (1658-1660)
- Group Portrait of an Unknown Family or Company (1658-1660)
- A Man Smoking and a Woman Drinking in a Courtyard (1658-1660)
- A Mother's Duty (1658-1660)
- Lady and Her Cook (c. 1660)
- A Woman with a Basket of Beans in a Garden (c. 1651-1661)
- Interior with a Woman Weighing Gold Coin (1659-1662)
- Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog (1662)
- Two Women Beside a Linen Chest, with a Child (1663)
- A Boy Bringing Bread (c. 1663)
- A Woman Peeling Apples (c. 1663)
- A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (1660-1663)
- Woman Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle (c. 1660-1663)
- Card Players in a Rich Interior (c. 1663-1665)
- Company in a Courtyard Behind a House (c. 1663-1665)
- The Council Chamber in Amsterdam Town Hall (c. 1663-1665)
- Going for a Walk in the Amsterdam Town Hall (c. 1663-1665)
- Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting (c. 1663-1665)
- Musical Party in a Hall (c. 1663-1665)
- Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid (1665-1668)
- Interior with a Mother Close to a Cradle (c. 1664-1670)
- The Maidservant (c. 1667-1670)
- Young Woman with a Letter and a Messenger in an Interior (1670)
- Interior of a Kitchen with a Woman, a Child and a Maid (c. 1668-1672)
- Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot (c. 1668-1672)
- Teaching a Child to Walk (c. 1668-1672)
- Woman Giving Money to a Servant-Girl (c. 1668-1672)
- Interior with a Man Reading a Letter and a Woman Sewing (c. 1670-1674)
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